Yet in actual schools, curiosity is drastically underappreciated.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlThe first thing teachers should do when school starts is talk about hatred in America. Here's help. - 1 views
Curiosity Is a Unique Marker of Academic Success - The Atlantic - 0 views
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The power of curiosity to contribute not only to high achievement, but also to a fulfilling existence, cannot be emphasized enough.
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When Orville Wright, of the Wright brothers fame, was told by a friend that he and his brother would always be an example of how far someone can go in life with no special advantages, he emphatically responded, “to say we had no special advantages … the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.”
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10 Bomb Messages Students Hide In Essays To Get A+ - 1 views
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1. Use Power Words
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2. Change Your Tone
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3. Start Essays With Inspiring Quotes
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Not Just a Girl @coolcatteacher - 1 views
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dropped my end of the heavy battery. Daddy and I needed to “jump off” or start up the irrigation system. I was perhaps eight and my sister and Mom were somewhere else.
BandLab: Music Starts Here - 0 views
Homework: An unnecessary evil? … Surprising findings from new research - The Washington Post - 0 views
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A brand-new study on the academic effects of homework offers not only some intriguing results but also a lesson on how to read a study — and a reminder of the importance of doing just that: reading studies (carefully) rather than relying on summaries by journalists or even by the researchers themselves.
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First, no research has ever found a benefit to assigning homework (of any kind or in any amount) in elementary school. In fact, there isn’t even a positive correlation between, on the one hand, having younger children do some homework (vs. none), or more (vs. less), and, on the other hand, any measure of achievement. If we’re making 12-year-olds, much less five-year-olds, do homework, it’s either because we’re misinformed about what the evidence says or because we think kids ought to have to do homework despite what the evidence says.
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Second, even at the high school level, the research supporting homework hasn’t been particularly persuasive.
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How the Ballpoint Pen Changed Handwriting - The Atlantic - 0 views
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The ballpoint’s universal success has changed how most people experience ink. Its thicker ink was less likely to leak than that of its predecessors. For most purposes, this was a win—no more ink-stained shirts, no need for those stereotypically geeky pocket protectors. However, thicker ink also changes the physical experience of writing, not necessarily all for the better.
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Once I started to adjust to this change, however, it felt like a godsend; a less-firm press on the page also meant less strain on my hand.
Differentiation Doesn't Work - Education Week - 0 views
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Let's review the educational cure-alls of past decades: back to basics, the open classroom, whole language, constructivism, and E.D. Hirsch's excruciatingly detailed accounts of what every 1st or 3rd grader should know, to name a few.
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Starting with the gifted-education community in the late 1960s, differentiation didn't get its mojo going until regular educators jumped onto the bandwagon in the 1980s.
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Differentiation is a failure, a farce, and the ultimate educational joke played on countless educators and students.
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Helping Students Navigate the World of Texting - 1 views
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Texting offers some interesting challenges for middle school students as they develop and practice social and emotional interactions with one another.
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Starting a classroom conversation about texting can help students share and learn together the best ways to navigate the world of texting. Teachers could Have students discuss texting in "pair shares" Visit with students asking for pros and cons from every student (if you have a small enough group) Include as an essay topic the things students like or don't like about texting
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